topic Re: E-mail config in HP in Operating System - HP-UX

E-mail config in HP

DareDevil_1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:13:09 GMT

hi,

am not able to start the sendmail server, getting the following error,

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 698: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/sendmail.cw': World writable directory
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 698: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/sendmail.cw': World writable directory

Please suggest.

Re: E-mail config in HP

F Verschuren — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:19:53 GMT

can you post :
cat /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
and please a atachment of /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

There is properly a tyo someware in one of them

Re: E-mail config in HP

F Verschuren — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:23:07 GMT

if sendmail.cw does not exist you can create one by:

echo localhost > /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
hostname >> /etc/mail/sendmail.cw

Re: E-mail config in HP

Richard Hepworth — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:29:56 GMT

Hi,

/etc/mail should have 555 perms otherwise sendmail won't start.

chmod 555 /etc/mail

regards,

Richard

Re: E-mail config in HP

DareDevil_1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:34:02 GMT

hi,

thanks a lot for all ur immeidiate response, /etc/mail has the perm 555.Attached the sendmail.cw and sendmail.cf files.

Re: E-mail config in HP

Richard Hepworth — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:42:20 GMT

Hi,

Can you post output of ls -la /etc/mail and ls -ld /var

thanks

Richard

Re: E-mail config in HP

Dennis Handly — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:20:12 GMT

>Attached the sendmail.cw and sendmail.cf files.

What are the permissions of these two files? They can't be group writable.
It seems that is the comment on line 698 of sendmail.cf.

Re: E-mail config in HP

DareDevil_1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:24:49 GMT

# ls -al /etc/mail
total 560
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jan 17 2007 .
drwxrwxrwx 31 bin bin 8192 Dec 29 18:36 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 879 Sep 3 2003 aliases
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Jan 12 2007 aliases.db
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 10221 Sep 3 2003 mailcap
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 100866 Dec 31 15:24 sendmail.cf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 100804 Aug 16 2005 sendmail.cf.16aug05
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 703 Dec 31 15:22 sendmail.cw

# ls -ld /var
dr-xr-xr-x 28 bin bin 8192 Jun 1 2007 /var

Re: E-mail config in HP

F Verschuren — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:26:43 GMT

after the creation of sendmail.cw please do a
chmod 444 /etc/mail/sendmail.c*
after that sandmail wil run again....

Re: E-mail config in HP

Richard Hepworth — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:30:15 GMT

Your problem is because /etc has 777 permissions. try setting it back to default:

chmod 555 /etc

regards,

Richard

Re: E-mail config in HP

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:03:29 GMT

Shalom,

Its definitely the directory permissions. Also the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cw needs to be readable at the least.

SEP

Re: E-mail config in HP

DareDevil_1 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:45:00 GMT

hi,

thanks a lot for all ur suggestions. changing the permission of /etc to 555 worked.